Sound familiar?

61% of SharePoint ECM projects have stalled or are not meeting expectations.

That's a lot of discouraged users screaming for a better solution.

Future trends only compound the challenges.

Millennials will soon make up 75% of the workforce.

Tablets are outselling PCs, and smart phones are ubiquitious.

Social technology has changed the way people interact.

Your organization needs a hero to deliver something better.

Future trends only compound the challenges.

Millennials will soon make up 75% of the workforce.

Tablets are outselling PCs, and smart phones are ubiquitious.

Social technology has changed the way people interact.

Your organization needs a hero to deliver something better.

Can you take SharePoint from

Aggravating to
Epic?

The answer starts with an Enterprise Collaboration Roadmap.

Galvanize your organization around a common set of priorities, then set a course for high adoption.

"... it became apparent that we needed to construct a strategy before we started talking about long-term funding - much less executing anything." – Dale - VP of Enterprise Applications, Reyes Holdings

It's time to make bold plans

When you plan ahead and start SharePoint projects from an Enterprise Collaboration Roadmap, adoption increases and satisfaction skyrockets.

And getting started is simple

Developing a roadmap begins with taking stock of your current state - your sites, tools, infrastructure, and processes. Next, leveraging best practices and our experience to help define your vision for the future - Tahoe Partners prioritizes the initiatives required to move forward.

And getting started is simple

Developing a roadmap begins with taking stock of your current state - your sites, tools, infrastructure, and processes. Next, leveraging best practices and our experience to help define your vision for the future - Tahoe Partners prioritizes the initiatives required to move forward.

Turn roadblocks into building blocks

Your roadmap creates a clear path to the future vision of your SharePoint strategy. With solutions defined for each component, along with steps to achieve every goal, you can guide your organization in taking the right steps at the right time in the journey.

Our Clients, Our Heroes

Reyes Holdings

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Here’s a legendary story for you: what started as a simple request for document management evolved into an IT roadmap for the next three years.

Reyes Holdings
Integrated Intranet & HR Portal Synopsis

Client: Reyes Holdings is the 11th largest privately held company in the United States, with more than 19,000 employees and sales of over $25 billion. Three separate divisions operate in 19 countries, deliver beer to over 34,000 accounts, and serve over 18,000 quick service restaurants.

Need: As a longtime user of SharePoint, Reyes’ SharePoint environment had grown with very few controls and little governance, resulting in a collaboration environment with a deficient user experience, low user adoption, and a poor reputation among employees. Additionally, the environment had not been upgraded since SharePoint 2007. Reyes required a partner to help develop a strategic enterprise collaboration strategy and roadmap and deliver on the defined critical initiatives.

Solution: Tahoe Partners was engaged as the partner of choice. Since partnering with Reyes Holdings, Tahoe Partners has developed a strategic SharePoint Roadmap, upgraded the SharePoint platform from 2007 to 2013, designed and deployed Reyes’ next generation intranet solution, designed and deployed their integrated SharePoint based HR Portal solution and is now currently performing the migration planning to the SharePoint 2016 platform.
Reyes Intranet Solution Key Components:

Collaborative platform consolidation

Mobile friendly access for ‘deskless’ workers

Cutting edge responsive design and user-experience

Personalization to site content and functionality based on business unit, company and location

Globally distributed content management

Multi-lingual with initial configuration for 5 languages

Technical integration to Reyes application portfolio

Hollister Healthcare
A multi-year roadmap for this global organization will lead to a common collaboration environment. Early priorities included a redesigned intranet, multi-lingual, personalization, social, content governance & robust search.

Hollister Incorporated is a privately held global manufacturer of medical products with approximately $1B in revenue and 2,500 employees around the world. They knew that their intranet, which had grown up organically around departmental silos, no longer fit the needs of their global workforce. Declining usage reflected the perception that their intranet was too U.S.-focused and not inclusive of global associates and offices. Further, it was difficult to share knowledge and information was out of date.

Hollister turned to Tahoe Partners to create an Enterprise Collaboration Roadmap, which led to a multi-year plan for collaboration across the organization (and the world). The first step: a next-generation intranet and robust communication channel built on SharePoint 2013, to serve associates while reinforcing their corporate brand and values. Initially English-only, the site was built to support future multi-lingual expansion. Recognizing that personalization is a key driver of adoption and usage, we introduced key features such as:

News, events and announcements are tailored to an associate's specific function and location

Associates control which project/team sites appear on their homepages, encouraging collaboration

Associates can add and manage links on their homepages to internal and external resources

Native SharePoint 2013 functionality provides enhanced search for content and internal subject matter experts, and enabled the introduction of social features via MySites. A distributed approach to content management, guided by workflows for approvals and collaboration, supports communication and publication of content globally.

Navistar
A social business solution connects employees and captures ideas, delivering $5.3MM in Cost Savings.

Navistar is a $13 billion manufacturer of commercial and military vehicles, and diesel engines. With 14,000 employees across the globe, Navistar had a large, talented, and dispersed workforce, but lacked a forum for enterprise collaboration and community development. Further, employees had no way of finding experts outside of their direct workgroup. And while the workforce had hundreds of ideas for cost reduction and revenue generation, Navistar did not have a company-wide way to capture, assign, track, and report on these ideas.

Navistar brought in Tahoe Partners to create a Global Collaboration Hub - to facilitate enterprise-wide social networking across the organization, and to design and implement an idea capture and routing program to evaluate and reward innovation from all levels of the organization

Tahoe developed a three-part SharePoint solution to serve as Navistar's Global Collaboration Hub. Enterprise collaboration capabilities were bolstered by the introduction of communities, activity feeds, and find-an-expert functionality, including the launch of NewsGator to enhance SharePoint's social features.

A new campaign enabled Navistar leadership to present challenges to the organization, solicit responses, ideate on proposed solutions, and gather feedback and metrics from across the organization. Finally, a Tahoe-designed Ideas Program fosters enterprise-wide idea collection, evaluation, recognition, and reward. Users are able to search through existing ideas to build upon them, and to share successful ideas via social tools.

The Global Collaboration Hub is bringing together Navistar employees across the organization. Anecdotes speak to hours of saved effort - a result of being able to quickly find the right internal expert to assist with a problem. And more than 1,800 ideas were submitted in the first six months of the ideas program - uncovering $5.3MM in cost savings that directly impact the bottom line.

Huron Consulting
An award-winning intranet puts the right information in the hands of the right people at the right time.

A professional services firm’s greatest assets are its people and the ability to share and leverage information across the organization. Huron’s intranet capabilities were static and old-style and lacked communities. A cumbersome user experience combined with poor search capabilities, meant consultants could not find information easily when they needed it.

Tahoe Partners transformed a passive repository into a highly personalized and dynamic knowledge exchange. The award-winning redesign combines collaboration, usability, and social networking to provide ease of access anytime anywhere. Additionally, the interface is significantly more intuitive, with information and content categorized according to how employees think about their jobs. We also incorporated real-time collaboration to keep projects moving forward and on track, as well as LinkedIn-like profiles so managers can quickly search people by expertise.

The new intranet is designed in SharePoint. We significantly enhanced the platform based on extensive research, usability studies and a strong understanding of Huron’s unique requirements. By fostering internal communities, Tahoe Partners was able to support Huron in transforming a push communication strategy into true collaboration. The overarching site architecture, new page views, improved interface and drill downs, make it easier for people to find what they want quickly.

Huron’s employee intranet has become a new cultural touchstone for harnessing the firm’s intellectual capital—putting the right information in the hands of the right people at the right time. Intranet usage has expanded by 86% and contributors have increased by 300%. In 2010, Huron’s employee portal was recognized by the Nielsen Norman Group as one of the year’s ten best intranets.